will miss the vote on the gop tax bill. mccain, as we know, currently recovering from a round of chemotherapy treatment for brain cancer. if you remember, everybody, back in late july, mccain voted no on the obamacare skinny repeal, killing that effort. he joined two other republicans, susan collins and lisa murkowski, at the time in opposing that. mccain s absence, though, unlikely to derail the tax effort going forward. republicans still appear to have enough votes to pass the bill, possibly as early as tuesday. meghan mccain just tweeting as well. i ll read this off the screen because we are just getting this in. she says thank you to everyone for their kind words. my father is doing well and we are looking forward to spending christmas together in arizona. if you re feeling charitable this christmas @headforthecure or @nbtstweets to help find a cure for brain cancer. and we remember the emotional video from meghan mccain and joe biden on the view, him talking about his son s tr
that he doesn t automatically buy into this argument that growth is going to be as big as republicans have said, and that s what this hinges on here. they say hey, if we give corporate tax breaks, that s going to translate into more countries repatriating their profits and more jobs coming here in america, but if that doesn t happen, and if those wages don t trickle down to middle class workers and don t trickle down to more jobs, that s when people are going to feel it. let s talk about the importance of the pass-through tax break, which steve mnuchin talked about earlier today. let s listen and then talk about that. pass-through are the engine of growth in this country, and this is about creating the lowest tax rate for pass-through since the 1930s. that s going to be massive, massive economic growth, and it s about fixing a broken business tax system. we ve had one of the highest corporate rates in the world with companies leaving trillions of dollars offshore so that they don t
welcome back, everybody. president trump is not up for re-election quite yet, but the campaigner in chief is gearing up to hit the campaign trails to back down-ballot gop candidates in next year s midterm elections after that upset in alabama. the washington post is reporting that. the president has told advisers that he wants to travel extensively and hold rallies and that he is looking forward to spending much of 2018 campaigning. but the question is, could this be risky strategy and pay off for republicans, or will next year s midterms become a referendum on the president himself? i want to bring back my panel, erin delmore and senior correspondent at business insider, lynette lopez. lynette, i m going start with you. how beneficial could the president s investment in down-ballot races be in the gop?
leveled against chicago as being the murder capital of america said we re going to make chicago an anti-trump city. how about making chicago an antimurder city? that should be the message. saving the lives of the constituency in chicago. that s where democrats are way off base on this. rachel, nearly 70% of voters between the ages of 18 and 34 want to see the democrats in control of congress. what do you think that republicans need to do to get a hold of the young vote here? well, two things. you know, that s the millennial vote, and there s one thing that we know millennials prize more than anything else, and that s authenticity. and i think republicans haven t done a good job at communicating their message do you think trump is good for the authenticity vote? i think for some people, yes for the young authenticity vote? for some, yeah. i think they look at him and they see he s unlike any other politician they ve ever seen and that appeals to them and they re overlook
donald trump ran on. when you want to talk about why there s no repeal and replace, why there is no tax cut, what is no tax reform, weathers no infrastructure bill, you sought right there. corker, mcconnell, the entire click establishment globalist click on capitol hill has to go. sandra: declaring war on the republic and establishment paid is a good idea? ron: i agree with what he said on why hasn t the party been able to get more done in the past, it was we have all these cantankerous conservatives, too principled, they don t compromise. what you found is repeal and replace and things like that, that is failing because the old guard established that republicans aren t able to deliver on promises that we ve made for seven years. i think tax reform really could be the waterloo for the republican establishment if we are passing it out of the house and conservatives in the senate are supporting it which i think they will, but you re losing some of these old guard establishment inside